Quote Originally Posted by Brutus778 View Post
A mixed bag for me. I enjoy seeing Middle-Earth on screen and will watch all episodes unless I die. But...

There's no denying some or many things in the show suck a lot. The showrunners' lack of experience are showing in my opinion. The constant mysteries around characters and events may hook a 10-year old but the writers are quite frankly insulting majority of the viewers' intelligence. That is not what makes a good story. Nor is unrealistic travelling (read teleporting), weird and unrealistic actions/words of characters that seem to have been written in only to make the plot flow forward or meaningless fan service (balrog show off, why?).

Ep 6 was taking the show to the right track but Ep 7 was pretty bad. It's not that I don't value a story unless it's an attention grabbing action piece but this one was all over the place. I also get that they have to keep following the different story arcs but they once again managed to raise more questions than they answered (mind you, the teasers published by Amazon marketing team prior to ep7 let us believe there would be answers coming). Why did none of the main characters die other than Ontamo? What's up with Bronwyn and her being almost immortal? Why the fake death again? Is there going to be one per episode? They were all physically quite close together when the cloud hit so how did some of them suddenly end up very far from the rest? Wasn't Halbrand supposedly gravely injured in the tent? He needed "elvish medicine"... really? How was he then able to get on a horse, smile like he's in paradise and then supposedly ride who knows how many days over to the Elves? Sauron or not, very bad writing overall. And these are just a few examples.

I hoped for a better show.
Ah, but Btonwyn is one of these 'modern' strong female characters, so there's no keeping her down! Massive blood loss? Nah, up and about in no time and looking fresh as a daisy. Inch-wide gash right through her shoulder from that broadhead arrow? Nah, she can use that arm to hug Theo without so much as a wince. Orc-arrow, when Orcs are known for putting poison on them? Conveniently forgotten. Volcanic eruption? Nah, you'd never know she was even there so that makes the death fakeout even more annoying. Meanwhile they need an excuse to get Halbrand off to see the Elves (obvious plot device is obvious), and as you say never mind how far it is, how long it'd really take to get there (watch them 'teleport' hundreds of miles, I bet you) or how he should be too sick to ride, and riding would absolutely hurt like hell and aggravate the wound. (Of course, if Halbrand is Sauron he could totally be faking it),

You can, err, 'look forward' to seeing plenty more of Bronwyn if she's going to Pelargir, because the plot's going to bring Elendil & Co. back there (it's his lot who build the haven at Pelargir, you see) and so she'l be right there.